Being a grown-up
Saturday was a very "grown-up" day for me and D. First, we went to meet with the mortgage officer to find out about how much $$ we can borrow to buy our condo. Turns out with only about $9k down, we can borrow about $120k and still have payments less than $950/month. We would like to spend less on the place and have a smaller payment, but still, this is within our budget and do-able. It's always easier to borrow less money than more.
We also went wedding ring shopping. We went to the same small boutique where I got my engagement ring. They still know us there--when we walked in, the lady asked if we were married yet! Apparently we are somewhat of a legend around there. She told us that several couples have come in since looking for original engagement or wedding rings and they tell our story a lot. We love these guys--they are SO nice, and have such great selection (i.e., they let us look through their catalogs), and are just as excited about our wedding as we are.
D picked out a ring for himself--it's really cool looking. Two-tone gold, with stripes of shiny white gold on either side of a stripe of brushed yellow gold (think satin nickel finish, only gold-colored). I am going to have my band custom-made, since the shape of the engagement ring makes it impossible to get a regular guard or wrap that sits flush against it. So the store has my ring right now; their artisan(s) are making up a wax model of the band so that I can approve it before they make it. It will have a row of tiny, tapered diamonds. I am so excited!
We booked the airline tickets for our honeymoon last week as well. We are now set for 14 days in Scotland and England. We will spend the first two in London, take the train to Edinburgh, rent a car, then spend three days in Stirling and two on the Isle of Arran, then back to Edinburgh for a few days and back to London before leaving. That's the tentative plan anyway. We will shortly be booking the rental car and train, and hotels are next.
We are trying to find a place to buy just envelopes for the invitations. They are SUPER expensive to get printed with return addresses (60 cents apiece!!) so we are looking for an alternative. Maybe we will buy a stamp with my mom's address on it and use it on the return address as well as the response cards. Since we are moving, probably sometime in May, we don't want to put our current address on the cards.
D has applied for his passport. Next up on each front:
Wedding-find envelopes, keep constructing invitations
Honeymoon-book hotels, rail, car
House-find a realtor
Busy, busy, busy!
Oh and by the way, I'm in the middle of my 2nd 13-hour day this week. You have to love parent conferences. We had a half day yesterday and conferences from 1-8, today a full day and conferences from 3-8.
We also went wedding ring shopping. We went to the same small boutique where I got my engagement ring. They still know us there--when we walked in, the lady asked if we were married yet! Apparently we are somewhat of a legend around there. She told us that several couples have come in since looking for original engagement or wedding rings and they tell our story a lot. We love these guys--they are SO nice, and have such great selection (i.e., they let us look through their catalogs), and are just as excited about our wedding as we are.
D picked out a ring for himself--it's really cool looking. Two-tone gold, with stripes of shiny white gold on either side of a stripe of brushed yellow gold (think satin nickel finish, only gold-colored). I am going to have my band custom-made, since the shape of the engagement ring makes it impossible to get a regular guard or wrap that sits flush against it. So the store has my ring right now; their artisan(s) are making up a wax model of the band so that I can approve it before they make it. It will have a row of tiny, tapered diamonds. I am so excited!
We booked the airline tickets for our honeymoon last week as well. We are now set for 14 days in Scotland and England. We will spend the first two in London, take the train to Edinburgh, rent a car, then spend three days in Stirling and two on the Isle of Arran, then back to Edinburgh for a few days and back to London before leaving. That's the tentative plan anyway. We will shortly be booking the rental car and train, and hotels are next.
We are trying to find a place to buy just envelopes for the invitations. They are SUPER expensive to get printed with return addresses (60 cents apiece!!) so we are looking for an alternative. Maybe we will buy a stamp with my mom's address on it and use it on the return address as well as the response cards. Since we are moving, probably sometime in May, we don't want to put our current address on the cards.
D has applied for his passport. Next up on each front:
Wedding-find envelopes, keep constructing invitations
Honeymoon-book hotels, rail, car
House-find a realtor
Busy, busy, busy!
Oh and by the way, I'm in the middle of my 2nd 13-hour day this week. You have to love parent conferences. We had a half day yesterday and conferences from 1-8, today a full day and conferences from 3-8.
posted by Suzy at 10:09 AM
2 Comments:
Gah! Reading this I realized I'm a bum and never responded to your Scotland questions. I will do so now:
Your itinerary sounds good. Three days may be a bit much for Stirling, but Stirling is a good jumping off point for day trips to the highlands. Glasgow can be cool, but it is very urban, so I don't know if that would necessarily be your scene - it sounds like you're going for something quieter.
I'm right with you on the thirteen hour days. That's every Wednesday for me this semester. Joy.
Yes, we were going to use Stirling as a base for day trips into the Highlands--it's fairly central, so we can get where we want to go. Plus, it's near Doune castle of Holy Grail fame. :-)
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